Police1 is forwarding the following information as an advisory for Saturday, Sept. 13, 2003. Officers should be aware of the possibility of protests and demonstrations in larger cities throughout the US.
World Says No to WTO: Actions Across U.S. Join With International Mobilizations to Unite Movements for Peace and Global Justice
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Well over 60 demonstrations, rallies, teach-ins, actions and other events are planned on Sept. 13 by Americans opposed to the WTO’s agenda of corporate control and the Bush administration’s occupation of Iraq. Major demonstrations are planned in New York, San Francisco, Miami, San Antonio, San Diego, Portland, Boston, Phoenix, Nashville, and Washington D.C., and dozens of smaller communities around the nation.
From September 10 to 14, the World Trade Organization (WTO) will hold its Fifth Ministerial meeting in Cancun, Mexico. At the urging of multinational corporations, the U.S., the European Union, and other developed countries are seeking to launch a new round of “free trade” negotiations and expand corporate globalization - further eroding human rights, workers’ rights, environmental protections, and democracy - in the interest of corporate control.
In response, social movements throughout the world have called for a “Worldwide Day of Action Against Militarism and Corporate Globalization” for September 13. This is the first time the two strongest social movements in the world - against corporate globalization and against the US war in Iraq - are coming together to voice a vision for another world based on peace and justice.
The variety of protests planned indicates the wide swathe of American society that has turned against the WTO’s corporate agenda. In the Bay Area protesters inaugurated the protests on Sept. 9 with an action against ChevronTexaco’s oil tankers under the slogan “No Stolen Iraqi Oil in the Bay.” Miami will see a joint action targeting the INS and Taco Bell to protest WTO language that would allow importation of cheap labor into the U.S., while slashing American minimum wage legislation. Groups ranging from Peace Action Maine to Central Indiana Jobs with Justice will take part.
Source: AScribe Newswire; ERRI